Thread: A question on Christian Scripture.

It is interesting that until they ate of the fruit from the tree of life Adam and Eve didn't know they were naked. So with the knowledge of sin comes the need for the fig leaf. When we think of 'sin' many of us, focus on sexual desires, covetousness and the like while most of us cannot say that we love God with all of our heart, mind and soul. Looking at a women with lust in our hearts or a man with the thought of killing him is equivalent to adultery or murder in God's eyes and I probably do both on a weekly basis..... look, not do.

BTW, when Paul the apostle said that,"all things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable", he was addressing the eating of sacrificial meat IIRC. Paul was bringing the gospel to the gentiles and there was some pushback from some of the other followers of Jesus who thought that it was for Jewish people only and that the law still applied. They didn't all fully understand the 'new covenant.'

All of the epistles, and the gospels, were written to address specific people and specific theological issues that were being debated within those populations at the time. Understanding what the agenda was for a specific epistle or gospel narrative is helpful. Not that the doctrinal part doesn't apply, it does, but knowing what Paul, Luke, Peter or James were getting at in presenting it is another field of study in trying to understand it.